<%@page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.text.*" %>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Displaying Dates</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Displaying Today's date in different formats:</h3>
<%!
Date today=new Date();
DateFormat formatFull=DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.FULL);
DateFormat formatLong=DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG);
DateFormat formatMedium=DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
DateFormat formatShort=DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
%>
<p>
Full Format: <%=formatFull.format(today) %>
<br>
Long Format: <%=formatLong.format(today) %>
<br>
Medium Format: <%=formatMedium.format(today) %>
<br>
Short Format: <%=formatShort.format(today) %>
</body>
</html>
Description:
- Use the import page directive to import the java.text.package.
- Create a Date object.
- Create a Date Format object by calling the getDateInstance method and passing DateFormat.FULL as a parameter.
- Create a Date Format object by calling the getDateInstance method and passing DateFormat.LONG as a parameter.
- Create a Date Format object by calling the getDateInstance method and passing DateFormat.MEDIUM as a parameter.
- Create a Date Format object by calling the getDateInstance method and passing DateFormat.SHORT as a parameter.
- Pass the current date as a parameter to the format method of the FormatFull object.This will display the full date, for example: 21 December 2012.
- Pass the current date as a parameter to the format method of the FormatLong object.This will display the long date, for example:12/21 /2012.
- Pass the current date as a parameter to the format method of the FormatMedium object.This will display the medium date, for example:Friday, 21 December 2012.
- Pass the current date as a parameter to the format method of the FormatShort object.This will display the short date, for example:12/21 /12.
******************************OUTPUT******************************************
Displaying Today's date in different formats:
Full Format: Friday, December 21, 2012
Long Format: December 21, 2012
Medium Format: Dec 21, 2012
Short Format: 12/21/12
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